Word: faints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time I saw a cadaver, I was scared I would faint," Eisenberg recalled during a recent interview at her Cambridge home...
...school only until about age 12 unless training for a "practical" career such as teaching. Eisenberg's parents supported the career choice, but distant relatives and close friends chastised her, saying she would "have trouble finding a husband once [she'd] seen a cadaver" and that she "probably would faint when [she] saw blood...
Fraud fighters offer this faint cheer: the baby boomers now entering their 50s are more skeptical than their parents. So maybe when they retire, fraud against the elderly will at last become tougher to perpetrate. Maybe...
This idea hasn't yet been confirmed by other shark researchers, but they don't dismiss it either. They know that sharks are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic signals; a "sixth sense" lets them home in on faint electricity generated by another fish's movement, gill action or even heartbeat. Indeed, Holland's team in Hawaii routinely tricks baby hammerheads at Coconut Island into striking at electrodes dangling in the water. Adult sharks, apparently drawn by the same process, have been known to bite through undersea cables. Holland is planning to investigate what sorts of electric signal might repel rather than...
...course reporters have worked as intelligence agents. But to do so endangers other reporters and violates journalism's quaint, faint imperative to work for only one paycheck and report even awkward truths. The counterbalancing urgency--biological warfare, for Pete's sake--makes Truell's decision too easy, so that in the last chapters a paunch begins to show on what was a taut and enjoyable job of writing...